What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein's General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust. Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emb...(展开全部)

Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and deliciou...(展开全部)

乔治·萨顿(George Sarton，1884～1956)，出生于比利时，但是在美国成就了他的事业。正是在他手中，科学史最终成为一门正式学科。1913年他创办了著名科学史杂Isis，并担任主编长达40年。1940年他被任命为哈佛大学的科学史教授。人们认为他创造了科学史这门学科的“工具、标准以及批判的自觉性”，故誉之为“科学史之父”。萨顿生前出版了15部专著，发表了340多篇论文和札记，编辑了79份详尽的科学史重要研究文献目录。这些都是他留给后人的珍贵遗产。

With his knack for translating science into understandable, anecdotal prose and his trademark dry humor, award-winning science writer Charles Seife presents the first narrative account of the history of fusion for general readers in more than a decade. Tracing the story from its beginning into the twenty-first century, Sun in a Bottle reveals fusion's explosive role in some of ...(展开全部)

When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the biggest source of energy in our solar system a " the phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion seems a virtually unlimited source of power, but it has been at the center of a tragic and comic pursuit that has left scores of scientists battered and disgraced. Like the eternal quest to...(展开全部)

查尔斯·塞费，出版了4本个人著作，其中包括《瓶中的太阳》和《零》，后者是首部荣获美国马尔塔·阿尔布朗文学奖的非小说类文学作品，也是《纽约时报》推荐图书。他的个人作品经常见于《科学》、《纽约时报》、《新科学家》、《科学美国人》、《经济学家》和《连线》等报刊杂志上。他生活在纽约，现任纽约大学新闻学教授。

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who fo...(展开全部)

It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who fo...(展开全部)